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They are just trying to preempt another Bendgate.

Then all they'll have to do is wait a couple of weeks until it comes out that Samsung is shipping tablets with cracked screens instead of cases that are merely bent. Which will throw the Hatorade Distortion Field out of alignment, and people will instantly stop caring about bent cases. Again.

Bendgate happened in 2014 and those were Apple products, not the competition. Oh, how quickly we forget.

Oh quickly you do - given the fact that the Samsung Edge cracked the screen at the same pressure where the iPhone would merely bend. But since it was no longer just Apple, people instantly stopped giving a shit about bendy phones. Just as they stopped caring about non hot-swappable batteries, no flash card slot, changing cable standards, notches, or even holding it wrong.

Notice that Android never faced similar lawsuits?

Also notice that no one cares about "walled gardens" on cars, Bluray players and game consoles. Like with don't hold it wrong and bendy phones and Foxxcon, the problem isn't a problem unless Apple is involved.

If this were Apple, they would deny the issue exist. That's exactly what "holding it wrong" was.

Uh, no. "Holding it wrong", like the bendy iPhone Plus, was a hateboi excuse to sit around and bitch about Apple. And like Bendgate, it was much worse with Samsung products than with Apple's - go check out that tumbler link and you'll see five Samsung devices where you're advised not to "hold it wrong". On the first page.

> Other than a decent browser and ads what else has Google been real successful at?

Gee, maybe 2 Billion Android Devices:

http://www.itechpost.com/artic...

Microsoft had a ~20 year head start with WinCE and yet Google still managed to beat them in ~ 6 years! (WinCE first shipped on 16 November 1996, Android first shipped on December 6, 2010)

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Linux on the Desktop didn't "win" compared to Linux Mobile

Wrong. Longer lives? Tell that to the 10s-of-thousands in the

Tell it to the reliability surveys that have put Apple as the most reliable PC manufacturer, for forever in computer terms.

in the class action suit about 2011 Macbooks that can't be fixed even with new motherboards directly from Apple

Because no PC manufacturers ever have QC issues. Ever. No phone manufacturers, either.

Apple doesn't make cheap unreliable shit, and they routinely are at the top of product reliability surveys. Now, for the hatebois who are halfway into their "don't hold it wrong" comments:

1) Better doesn't mean flawless. Apple have had to extend warranties on some of their products over the years because they were shipped with crappy parts...same as Toyota and Honda.

2) Remember the Hatorade Distortion Effect. Google Maps has had some doozies of directions, but errors in GPS software weren't an international incident until the release of Apple Maps. People have gotten the Galaxy S6 screen to shatter at pressures where the iPhone 6 merely bends, yet ShatterGazi was never a thing. And of course remember not to hold your Galaxy S5 wrong. Or the S4. Or the HTC Evo. Or the Lumia 900.....

Depends on whether you see any analysts talking about a high level of unsold inventory, I don't see any evidence of too much channel stuffing happening.

The Lumia 520 sold out in less than half hour on Walmart.com.

http://www.itechpost.com/articles/8924/20130509/nokia-lumia-521-low-end-129-prepaid-unlocked-smartphone-huge.htm

http://www.neowin.net/news/lumia-521-sells-out-again-at-hsn-walmart

Sold out on India's Amazon equivalent flipcart too, in fact it's out of stock since a month because of the heavy demand.

http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-520-selling-out-on-flipkart/